UC v. Bakke was a historic case that changed the course of how race would / would not factor into decisions of admission to colleges and universities.
The Bakke review was an interesting article.
This particular section caught my eye: "The legal threats to race-conscious policies were real enough by 1977 to prompt the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education to urge colleges to consider minority students' experiences, rather than simply their race or heritage, in the admissions process, because not all "have special characteristics that we believe warrant consideration."
...and made me wonder what those "special characteristics" are and if we each look for those in our own ways or exclude those who don't fit our stereotypic view of what should or should not be.
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